SHALL WE PLACEFUNDINGMANDATES IN THECONSTITUTION?TTT’s ANDYDRISCOLL and LYNNELLMICKELSEN host a robust debate on the pluses and minuses of a proposed Constitutional amendment to raise the sales tax to guarantee funding of arts and environmental programs.

We have, in the last couple decades, confronted an unprecedented volume of government secrecy even as our technological developments have enabled an unconscionable level of identity and data mining. Governments, at the federal, state, and local levels, stamp SECRET, TOPSECRET, or CONFIDENTIAL over millions of documents and files containing what should be public information.